{"id":2158,"date":"2016-05-17T01:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2016-05-17T01:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:26:35","slug":"for-edenton-little-rascals-is-unfinished-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"For Edenton, \u2018Little Rascals is unfinished business\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2159\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160516HayesB.jpg\" alt=\"Hayes Plantation\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160516HayesB.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/160516HayesB-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hayes Plantation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">May 16, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The aftereffects of Little Rascals on Edenton have long interested me. With<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1039\"> few exceptions<\/a>\u00a0the town\u2019s residents, now fewer than 5,000 for the first time since 1970,\u00a0 seem dedicated to forgetting their prominent role in the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care panic. When the chief prosecutor ran for district attorney, the local paper published 17 stories and an endorsement editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1334\">without mentioning Little Rascals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One Edenton innkeeper even deleted mention of the case from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1310\">the town\u2019s Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m always glad to see another perspective. This is from a note sent by a former resident:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was excited to see your Facebook page on Little Rascals. I had been looking for copies of the PBS programs for years and had only uncovered some poor quality copies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have many friends in Edenton, which made viewing \u2018Innocence Lost\u2019 all the more interesting. I began to know Edenton right at the tail end of the saga. For me its attractiveness was the sense that I was in a very different place, a different culture from home. Quiet, peaceful, slow-paced. But we concluded this was no place to live. Yes, some nice people to be found, but overall, pretty stifling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe town leaders still have some things to answer for about Little Rascals, and I suspect that until there is a process of reconciliation, the town will remain a troubled place, though it does a good job putting on a facade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle Rascals is unfinished business. The problem is that the power structure sees no reason for change. There is such a direct link to the plantation mentality here in eastern North Carolina (which also saw no reason to change), it&#8217;s not even funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16, 2016 The aftereffects of Little Rascals on Edenton have long interested me. With few exceptions\u00a0the town\u2019s residents, now fewer than 5,000 for the first time since 1970,\u00a0 seem dedicated to forgetting their prominent role in the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care panic. When the chief prosecutor ran for district attorney, the local paper published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}